Terror outfit threatening Pulwama residents, probe agencies alert forces

Sumit Kumar Singh New Delhi, Dec 22 : Indian intelligence agencies have alerted the security establishments that a terror outfit — The Resistance Front (TRF) — has started threatening the residents of Jammu and Kashmir for siding with the security forces.
TRF, a newly created terror outfit based in Pakistan, has released names of residents from JU&K’s Pulwama district, terming them as “traitors” and warned them “not to side with India”. Indian probe agencies have alerted the security establishments about the TRF list.
On February 14, 2019, Pakistan-based terrorist organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar executed a terror attack in Pulwama in which 40 Indian troopers of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were killed. The ghastly attack triggered action by the Indian Air Force (IAF) against a Jaish terror camp deep inside Pakistan 12 days later, and resulted in a dogfight between fighter jets of the two nations on February 27.
In September this year, social media accounts linked to TRF had released a hit list of 39 people, mostly comprising Valley-based journalists, political workers and activists, whom the militant group accused of being on the payrolls of Indian security agencies.
The 39 people named in the list have also been categorised as A+, A, B and C. This categorisation is similar to how the Jammu and Kashmir police slot militants based on the level of their involvement in militants activities. Then the local police had filed an FIR against unknown people in connection with a ‘hit list’ and a probe into the matter is on.
Indian intelligence agencies had earlier stated that it was after the abrogation of Article 370 that Pakistan started a new terror front on social media and it was named as The Resistance Front.